IIT professor, Microsoft scientist bag awards for contributions for linking computing to society

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) honoured Meenakshi Balakrishnan, an IIT-Delhi professor, who designed a smart cane that allows the visually-impaired to detect items above their knee level, and Victor Bahl, an India-born scientist at Microsoft, for their contributions to shape the role of computing in society.

The 2018 ACM award recipients made seminal contributions to education via textbooks and online education, to the mobile computing community, and technologies to aid the visually-impaired, ACM said. They will be honoured at an ACM function in San Francisco on June 15.